Looking for Halloween costumes aimed toward girls? A Mighty Girl has ideas to inspire a DIY as well as budget-friendly and costumes to purchase. But equally important, the popular site provides book, toy and movie recommendations featuring girls and women, which means plenty of ideas for costumes and girl empowerment. Its book directory includes fiction and biographies, with filters for age and subjects such as science, history, friendship and discrimination and the website also offers themed reading lists and articles about women’s lives and accomplishments.
Not only can you and your child dream up for find a costume, you can also find a book that provides facts about historical figures they may want to pretend to be on Halloween — think Amelia Earhart, Sally Ride, and Harriet Tubman
The website’s interactive, costume-finding tool sorts by age and category. And honestly, a lot of these costumes are not gender-specific.
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Halloween costume ideas from A Mighty Girl
A Mighty Girl offers costumes that fit every age from infant to adult, in categories like animals, humorous, traditional/scary and, my personal favorite, historical. My daughter and I looked seriously at the Supreme Court justice costume (RBG, anyone?), the Baby M.D. and all of the superheroes. Also, who doesn’t love a tiny, cuddly sloth?
You can save a trip to the mall by using the “Buy from Amazon” links. Shopping this way sends a portion of proceeds to support A Mighty Girl and its girl empowerment mission.
A Mighty Girl calls itself “the world’s largest collection of books, toys and movies for smart, confident, and courageous girls.” In addition to the costume guide, it has dozens of fun and spooky book and movie selections for kids and teens.
Popular Halloween costumes
Separately, there’s this from a fashion website that said it analyzed Google trends data to declare “2024’s most popular Halloween costumes.” Here’s what they came up with:
- Frida Khalo
- Wizard of Oz characters
- Moana
- Minions
- Hedwig or Hermione Granger from Harry Potter
- Wonder Woman, Deadpool, Wolverine, Batgirl, Supergirl and Black Widow in its superhero costume coverage.
- Barbie and Ken
- After that, ghost is a perennial favorite
Get the book(s)
Does your child want to be the mysterious painter Frida Khalo or Halloween? Or perhaps they want to be Katherine Johnson, the pioneering African American NASA mathematician whose vital trajectory calculations helped make America’s early crewed space missions successful and who was portrayed in the book and film “Hidden Figures.” Don’t miss the opportunity to pair their costume with reading on these historical figures. An you don’t have to purchase titles from A Mighty Girl. Just note them and head to your local library!Â
